Emanuel Dildy joined Duke University’s men’s basketball staff in August 2023 as an assistant coach, and was promoted in August 2025 to the Steve & Judy Pagliuca Associate Head Coach role under head coach Jon Scheyer. He is widely regarded as one of the nation’s top recruiters and a detailed teacher of the game, bringing to Duke a proven track record of talent acquisition and player development. Prior to Duke, Dildy spent two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma, where he earned a promotion to associate head coach and played a key role in signing several ESPN 100 prospects. Before that, he served three years at Northwestern University under Chris Collins, helping assemble the program’s highest-rated recruiting class. He also held coaching positions at Valparaiso (2017-18), Missouri (2016-17), Loyola Chicago (2013-16) and Eastern Illinois (2012-13) before his transition to Duke.
A Chicago native, Dildy began his coaching career at Kennedy-King College in Chicago as an assistant (2008-10) and then head coach (2010-12). He played two seasons at New Mexico State before transferring to Eastern Illinois, where he earned All-Ohio Valley Conference honors and graduated with a Communications degree in 2005. After college, he played professionally in Germany for two years and in the International Basketball League in the U.S. for one season.
